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Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Move your Mac even further ahead

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noah111

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Thanks a ton, guys.

[edit] Oooh top of the page, might as well post this now (been meaning to since Greyface did). I've been using these gestures for a while now and i'm really comfortable with it all. I haven't even opened BTT to mess with things in quite a while, so i'm basically settled on this list. I just went the route of extending on the philosophy of the default gestures, so (to me anyway) it all feels natural/no-brainer.


System Preference Trackpad Gestures
Two Finger Tap/Click — Secondary Click (aka Right Click)
Four Finger Swipe Left/Right — Move Left/Right a Space
Four Finger Swipe Up — Mission Control
Four Finger Swipe Down — App Exposé
Two Finger Swipe Left from right edge — Notification Center
Pinch In with thumb and three fingers — Launchpad
Pinch Out with thumb and three fingers — Show Desktop

BTT Universal Trackpad Gestures
Four Finger Tap — Lookup/Define Word Under Cursor
Four Finger Click — Google Search Selected Text
TipSwipe Left Finger Up — Scroll/Snap to Top of Page (aka Home)
TipSwipe Left Finger Down — Scroll/Snap to Bottom of Page (aka End)
Two Finger TipTap Middle — Center Window
Two Finger TipTap Left — Application Switcher
Five Finger Tap — Turn Isolator On/Off
Three Finger Click — Play/Pause
Three Finger Clickswipe Left/Right — Prev/Next Track
Corner Click Bottom Left — Quit Application
Corner Click Bottom Right — Enter Fullscreen Mode (if supported)
Three Finger Swipe Down — Close Window Under Cursor (i.e. red button)
Extras
cmd + Three Finger Swipe Down — Minimize Window Under Cursor (i.e. yellow button)
cmd + Pinch In/Out — Zoom/Maximize Window Under Cursor (i.e. green button)
cmd + Three Finger Swipe Left — Maximize Window to Left
cmd + Three Finger Swipe Right — Maximize Window to Right
cmd + Three Finger Swipe Up — Restore Original Window Size
fn + Two Finger Swipe Up — Sleep Display
fn + Two Finger Swipe Down — Sleep Computer
fn + Two Finger Swipe Left — Switch to Login Screen (without logging out)
fn + Two Finger Swipe Right — Logout Immediately

Safari / Chrome / Firefox
Three Finger Swipe Up/Down — New Tab/Close Tab
Three Finger Swipe Left/Right — Prev/Next Tab
Two Finger Swipe Left/Right — Back/Forward
Three Finger Tap — Open Link in Background Tab
Rotate Left — Undo Close Tab
Rotate Right — Reload Page

Finder
Three Finger Tap — Quicklook
Three Finger Swipe Up/Down — New Window/Close Window
Three Finger Swipe Left/Right — Back/Forward
Three Finger Clickswipe Up — New Folder
Three Finger Clickswipe Down — Move to Trash
TipSwipe Left Finger Left/Right — Undo/Redo
Pinch In — New Folder with Selection
Single Finger Tap Right Side Middle — Show/Hide Inspector
Single Finger Tap Left Side Middle — Show/Hide View Options

QuickTime / VLC / iTunes / Spotify
Three Finger Tap — Play/Pause
Three Finger Swipe Left — Skip Backward / Previous Track
Three Finger Swipe Right — Skip Forward / Next Track

Pixelmator / Photoshop
Three Finger Tap — Selection Tool
Four Finger Tap — Select All
Three Finger Swipe Left/Right — Undo/Redo
Three Finger Swipe Up — Group Selected Layers
Three Finger Swipe Down — Merge Selected Layers
Pinch In — Zoom In to Actual Size (100%)
Pinch Out — Zoom Out to Fit in Window
Rotate Left — Canvas Size
Rotate Right — Image Size

And just for good measure, my keyboard shortcuts;

Keyboard Shortcuts
optn+left/right key — Move Left/Right a Space
cmd+space — Launchpad
cmd+optn+space — Spotlight
optn doble tap — Alfred Search
cmd double tap — Clipboard History (via Alfred)
optn+m — iTunes Music Search (via Alfred)
cmd+up/down key — Volume Up/Down (via BTT)
optn+space — Play/Pause (via Bowtie)
cmd+left/right key — Prev/Next Track (via Bowtie)
Extras
optn+up key — Mission Control
optn+down key — App Exposé
cmd+optn+left key — Notification Center
cmd+optn+down key — Show Desktop
cmd+optn+mouseover — Drag window under cursor (via BTT)


I'd love to see others' BTT settings, too. Think I nailed it for my personal usage, but i'd probably get ideas from seeing different gesture lists and how others tackle certain tasks differently.
 
Has anyone noticed a decreased battery life? I was cooking dinner/reading the instructions on safari and noticed that my battery was draining super fast.
 

caramac

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Seem to be having quite a few Magic Mouse issues since installing ML on my 2011 iMac. Pointer randomly disappears and lost connections. Batteries are ok.
 

scorcho

testicles on a cold fall morning
go to Chrome and type about:flags in the location bar. they've had an option for a three finger swipe down for tab overview for some time now. depending on the version of Chrome you have, you may also find other settings to improve performance (threaded compositing, GPU compositing, hardware acceleration for video).
 

Dragnet

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Can anyone give me a quick rundown of a few awesome apps I should get for day to day use? Already got Cinch and Caffeine which are super great, just wondering if there are any others.
 

scorcho

testicles on a cold fall morning
BetterTouchTools - multi-finger gestures up the wazoo and enough window management tweaks to replace Cinch, Divvy, etc.
Alfred - uber keyboard launcher
iStat Menus - monitor temps, network speeds, disk access, etc. from the menu bar
KeyboardCleanTool - launch the app and clean the crap out of your keyboard
XtraFinder - greatly improves file management in Finder. Adds tabbed windows, copy/paste files, folders on top, etc.
 

LCfiner

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Can anyone give me a quick rundown of a few awesome apps I should get for day to day use? Already got Cinch and Caffeine which are super great, just wondering if there are any others.

here's the free stuff I use almost daily

bettertouchtool. gesture customization.

Cloud. can automatically upload screenshots and you can drag images to the menu bar icon to upload them. handy

Dropbox. naturally

tweetbot. currently in alpha but best mac twitter client I have used. likely won't be free when officially released.

VLC play pretty much any video file.
 

noah111

Still Alive
BetterTouchTools - multi-finger gestures up the wazoo and enough window management tweaks to replace Cinch, Divvy, etc.
Alfred - uber keyboard launcher
iStat Menus - monitor temps, network speeds, disk access, etc. from the menu bar
KeyboardCleanTool - launch the app and clean the crap out of your keyboard
XtraFinder - greatly improves file management in Finder. Adds tabbed windows, copy/paste files, folders on top, etc.
here's the free stuff I use almost daily
Cloud. can automatically upload screenshots and you can drag images to the menu bar icon to upload them. handy
Dropbox. naturally
tweetbot. currently in alpha but best mac twitter client I have used. likely won't be free when officially released.
VLC play pretty much any video file.
Great lists, pretty much stole everything I would've posted. :p But I would add;

Bowtie - Lets you place theme-able album art and track info on your desktop.
Sonara - Great iTunes alternative to browsing your music, but uses you same iTunes library.
Plex - Visual way to display and browse your media (movies, music, tv shows, etc).
AppCleaner - A very simple no-hassle app remover that finds all associated files and removes them.
CleanMyMac - A robust cleaning tool that finds redundant/unnecessary files in your system.
Unarchiver - The system zip tools are great but this is more full-featured and lets you unzip many more format types (such as rar).
Pixelmator - Best photo editor around imo, easy to use while still being robust.
Adaptar - Great looking video converter that can also download YouTube videos easily and in-line.
Simple Comic - Best .cbz/.cbr reader out there.
Name Changer - Lets you rename multiple files at a time with really specific parameters, making batch renaming (hundreds of files) super easy.
Isolator - Dims/blurs everything except the current window, letting you focus on a single app window and remove background distractions.
Moom - Lets you save window sizes and positions to set a later date. This is great if you have a specific work-style with specific window positions and sizes for each app.
Afloat - Gives you the ability to lock any window on top among other things like induce transparency (great for watching videos in while web browsing, for example).
 

Particle Physicist

between a quark and a baryon
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MS is not an identified developer?

:/
 

Particle Physicist

between a quark and a baryon
They just haven't signed their apps yet, right click on the app and select open, that should fix it.

I had no idea you could just right click and open to install. Thanks. I had temporarily turned off gatekeeper in order to install it, this is a bit of an annoyance.



It's worse though because you can't just click a "let me do it anyway" button. Or else I missed that option. Just had to turn it off completely.


The right click open gives you that option. No idea why it's hidden like that though.
 

mrkgoo

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I had no idea you could just right click and open to install. Thanks. I had temporarily turned off gatekeeper in order to install it, this is a bit of an annoyance.






The right click open gives you that option. No idea why it's hidden like that though.

If you right click and open, it basically allows it through, right? As in that version gets topen from that point on regularly? That,s what I thought, but Leo laporte reported it as being able to open for that one time.

And yeah, it tells you about this when you go to switch gatekeeper off.


Anyway last big I had a major issue with either mountain lion, aperture 3.3.2 or the combination. I was doing a rebuild, but partway through aperture started eating all the ram (which it was doi earlier when i was messing with faces), but wihtout being able to kill it, it ate all the ram then proceeded to eat about 8gb of HD as swap space to finish the job. However, since it ate all ram and then some, it locked up my whole computer. Finder would take ages to openas it struggle t find memory. NEVER had OS x behave this way. It was weird.
 

Sec0nd

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How do I get rid of this amplified scrolling speed after scrolling down for a bit in Safari? It's really fucking annoying.
 

Reckoner

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Connected my external hard drive and, while emptying my thrash, there is always one folder reappearing every time. How can I fix this?
 

njean777

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Anybody still on lion? I have noticed a bunch of little things that made me mad about ML so I went back to lion :( but everything works great now :)
 

mrkgoo

Member
It's a random folder. I think it came from the hard drive thrash. Also, it appears on the thrash. I empty it and it appears there anyway.

Each drive keeps it's own trash folder. Maybe try a secure empty of trash or something to force an empty? Does reappear every time you plug in your external?

Remember to empty the trash while the drive is mounted.


Anybody still on lion? I have noticed a bunch of little things that made me mad about ML so I went back to lion :( but everything works great now :)
What made you are about ML?
 

Reckoner

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Each drive keeps it's own trash folder. Maybe try a secure empty of trash or something to force an empty? Does reappear every time you plug in your external?

Remember to empty the trash while the drive is mounted.

I empty it while the drive is mounted, it keeps appearing without me disconnecting it. It's like, I empty and in the second after the folder reappears there. I tried a force empty and nothing.
 

njean777

Member
Each drive keeps it's own trash folder. Maybe try a secure empty of trash or something to force an empty? Does reappear every time you plug in your external?

Remember to empty the trash while the drive is mounted.



What made you are about ML?

UI lag with the retina MBP (fixed somewhat with changing stacks to folders), when switching spaces it would take an extra second to finally switch over (finish the animation), mission control lag when using old style expose, Safari 6 not putting me back to the same place when going pack a page on forums.
 

corn_fest

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Speaking of useful apps, does anyone use Witch? OS X's default app switcher is too simple to be useful to me.
Also, am I going to experience slowdown installing a bunch of background programs (xtrafinder, BTT, Witch, Dropbox, etc...)? I always used a pretty vanilla Windows install, so this is new to me.
 
How is the built-in task switcher too simple for you, and what do you get out of Witch? I tried Witch, but it wouldn't always work in some apps, especially Steam games, and other apps that used full screen. I like the list presentation better than the horizontal icons of the built-in switcher, but.. I duno.
 

corn_fest

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How is the built-in task switcher too simple for you, and what do you get out of Witch? I tried Witch, but it wouldn't always work in some apps, especially Steam games, and other apps that used full screen. I like the list presentation better than the horizontal icons of the built-in switcher, but.. I duno.

I dislike how the built-in switcher only switches between applications and not windows, primarily. It's not usually a big deal to find a window after switching, just a minor annoyance... Also, the window previews in Witch are pretty nice.
 

firehawk12

Subete no aware
I dislike how the built-in switcher only switches between applications and not windows, primarily. It's not usually a big deal to find a window after switching, just a minor annoyance... Also, the window previews in Witch are pretty nice.
I set up a hot corner to show all the open windows for the application that's in focus. Of course, that's still an extra step you need to think about.
 

Mr. F

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I remember the Notification Center icon in the beta was a bullseye that would light up when there were unchecked notifications. Any way to make the current icon do anything like that? Sometimes I randomly check the Notification Center only to find that I had missed notifications from hours earlier.
 

Ambitious

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OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

If one edits a document, then chooses Save As, then BOTH the edited original document and the copy are saved, thus not only saving a new copy, but silently saving the original with the same changes, thus overwriting the original.

If you notice this auto-whack, you can “Revert To” the older version*** (manually), but if you don’t notice, then at some later date you’ll be in for a confusing surprise. And maybe an OMG-what-happened (consider a customer invoice that was overwritten).

Full article: http://macperformanceguide.com/MountainLion-SaveAs-data-destruction.html
Discussion on Hacker News: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4339609
 

noah111

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Is there any way to put the incremental volume/brightness keyboard shortcut into BTT? Holding option+shift+F12 for example, doesn't allow you to put in the shortcut. I want to make scrolling up/down with a modifier key allow for precision (incremtnal) volume/brightness control, so I wouldn't have to hold option+shift+vol. keys... Any way to do this?

I remember the Notification Center icon in the beta was a bullseye that would light up when there were unchecked notifications. Any way to make the current icon do anything like that? Sometimes I randomly check the Notification Center only to find that I had missed notifications from hours earlier.
Doesn't seem so.. but you can look here;
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Not sure how it was named before so I can't see if that ability is still secretly accessible or something, but currently there's menuitemNormal, menuitemPressed, and menuitemMute (which I don't know wtf is). The functionality was there. If I was running an older version of ML that had this feature, I think theoretically I would be able to replicate the feature in the current version by perhaps messing with the .strings/nibs.
 

VNZ

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Shouldn't it auto-revert back to the original file?
Not if you accept the concept of auto-save as "the current document is always saved". In apps that don't autosave I'm used to manually save basically after any meaningful change, and I only use 'Save as' to create a new starting point for changes – so for me this behaviour is unproblematic. I realize how it can interfere for people that use 'Save as' to divert the document from some point back in time when the last save was made, of course.
 
I'm having trouble with iCloud integration.

So, how far does it go? Like, what apps use iCloud?

Notes is only grabbing my last 5 or so notes. None of the previous ones I've made before I activated iCloud on my Mac are on there. Still on my phone though.

Photo stream works great.

messages is confusing. I tried using it to text a friend of mine, but I typed in his name, and it didn't recognize it from my contacts list. In fact, it doesnt even show me a list of people I can contact. Some sort of buddy list with all my iMessages contacts would be nice. I hardly used aim so I'm not gonna bother with it. Wish it at least had facebook chat, but I don't im enough people to care.
 

noah111

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messages is confusing. I tried using it to text a friend of mine, but I typed in his name, and it didn't recognize it from my contacts list. In fact, it doesnt even show me a list of people I can contact. Some sort of buddy list with all my iMessages contacts would be nice. I hardly used aim so I'm not gonna bother with it. Wish it at least had facebook chat, but I don't im enough people to care.
It does have facebook chat, but it isn't built in per-say.

And obviously he needs to have set up iMessages as well, or you need to have his @me/cloud in his contact info.
 

Particle Physicist

between a quark and a baryon
Not if you accept the concept of auto-save as "the current document is always saved". In apps that don't autosave I'm used to manually save basically after any meaningful change, and I only use 'Save as' to create a new starting point for changes – so for me this behaviour is unproblematic. I realize how it can interfere for people that use 'Save as' to divert the document from some point back in time when the last save was made, of course.

Yeah, I always save as a new file before I make any changes. I've accidentally saved over an original file before, so I'm used to doing that now.
 

kennah

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Yeah, I always save as a new file before I make any changes. I've accidentally saved over an original file before, so I'm used to doing that now.

Yeah basically. You just need to change your thinking to make the copy first, and then do your edits.

Which... in a way... makes sense.
 
I dislike how the built-in switcher only switches between applications and not windows, primarily. It's not usually a big deal to find a window after switching, just a minor annoyance... Also, the window previews in Witch are pretty nice.
Command + ~ for window switching within a single application.

It's better than just Command + Tab going through every single window you have. I feel like Windows shortcuts like Alt + Tab don't consider scale like OSX's shortcuts.
 

Rayme

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wowowowowo....wtf

This better be fixed ASAP because I honestly used it all the time in SL.
There's nothing broken, though. "Save As" has always meant "branch from current". They don't need to break it to fit the bad habits some people have kept (doing 5+ minutes of work without saving, etc).
 
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